Daily stress and symptoms predicting current somatic symptomatology levels: A prospective study

The effects of daily stress (hassles) and previous somatic symptoms on current somatic symptomatology levels were examined in a model using data from a 7-days prospective study. The results indicate that the best predictor of the current somatic symptomatology levels was the level of previous symptoms, but daily stress significantly predict psychological symptoms, even once initial symptom status is controlled for statistically.